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Peter Cossins
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Writer, journalist, cyclist living in the Ariège and currently working on a book about the Pyrenees
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Peter Cossins @petercossins.bsky.social · Nov 15
Put this together to help bike fans find their favourite teams, riders and writers on Bluesky. Not many out there so far, in fact I've not found a single rider on here, but the community's growing fast. Let me know if there's anyone I should add

#CyclingBlueSky #BikeSky

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One the biggest transfers during this off-season
tonke.bsky.social Tonke @tonke.bsky.social · 2d
Premier Tech indeed new sponsor for Alpecin!
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Premier Tech indeed new sponsor for Alpecin!
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Who's replaced the financial backer? That's what we all want to know
domestiquecycling.com Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 4d
🇨🇭 Scott replaces Factor as bike supplier to rebranded 🇨🇭 NSN Cycling Team

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📸 Cor Vos
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
"You seem happier"

Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The Backpedal - I've landed on The Monuments by Peter Cossins

What do we find therein? Come and see..

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November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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//INRNG: Some thoughts on the Never Say Never takeover of IPT inrng.com/2025/11/neve...
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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timbale.bsky.social
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This skewers the red herring of an argument that charging fans to spectate is an answer to bike racing’s issues
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A reminder…
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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French Basque wins 100km desert race wearing one of his region’s emblematic products - espadrilles. Chapeau! 🧑‍🎨
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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niedermeyer.online
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28d
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Apart from L’Equipe who probably have a duty to do so, I don’t know why anyone reports on the Saitama criterium and other similar events that are the WWE of bike races
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Everything that @barneyronay.bsky.social says here applies equally to cycling. The Israel team has been the focus of widescale protests that have undermined it while UAE Team Emirates have collected almost every prize worth having with barely a hint of criticism or scrutiny
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘will cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday. In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created. Continue reading...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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The Halland Johannessen twins 🎶

Tobias & Anders 💛
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Wish I knew what brand of paint this was near the top of the Col d’Agnes, could do with some of the outside of our house
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Oct 31
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The UAE has its fingerprints all over this
Sudan’s brutal civil war – what has happened in El Fasher?
Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the city from the army after an 18-month siege – but who are they and what do they want?
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Private Eye hits it every time @chadbourn.bsky.social
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Oct 29
Private Eye.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread way of life and their strange support for prominent Reform MP customs, but Reform MPs Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of comprise only 0.7 percent of the minorities on television. House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce. right. Every time you turn on "I'm not prejudiced. Some of the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. Kuenssberg." There are too many people with She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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sportingintel.bsky.social
For anyone who enjoyed last year's "Skyfall" investigation, this is one for you. It's a biggie.

Wiggins' EXPLOSIVE new 'Jiffy' theory lays the groundwork for Team Sky game of Traitors

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Wiggins' EXPLOSIVE new 'Jiffy' theory lays the groundwork for Team Sky game of Traitors
Bradley Wiggins' latest autobiography, The Chain, contains claims about a dark conspiracy at Team Sky. Mutual destruction awaits if someone tells the actual truth
sportingintelligence832.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The 8th edition of The Roadbook is now on sale - complete with a signature from editor @nedboulting.bsky.social if you follow the link below - and with insights from the likes of Isaac Del Toro, Cat Ferguson, Alexei Sayle and me. Be quick, as they're selling fast...
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The Road Book 2025 (Signed by Ned Boulting)
Discover The Road Book 2025, signed by Ned Boulting. It's the definitive annual for passionate road cycling fans. Packed with stats, essays, and race insights, it’s the perfect gift for cyclists and l...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
petercossins.bsky.social
It is very windy up here today, easing now thankfully
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Rainbow colours over Les Angles this lunchtime. I’m not sure which way the Tour de France is coming up here but I’ve ridden from the Quillane pass and it’s easy, big ring even for me. Great the race is coming to the Capcir as it’s a stunning place to ride, so many quiet roads
October 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM